Just in case you’ve never noticed it, Roareye Black opened a ‘Musicians’ section on the site with the goal to provide detailed information for all musicians that have worked with SEGA.

However, he didn’t announce it and it’s been sitting there for a while with 2 sections open; 1 for Crush 40 and another for Hideki Naganuma.

I’ve just added another 2 musicians to the section. There is now detailed information regarding Spencer Nilsen (famous for the North American Sonic CD soundtrack) and The Offspring (famous for Crazy Taxi 1 and 2).

Let’s rock!

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Now this is cool! We often see interviews with Yuji Naka with respected gaming press, but a Nights fansite? Mr Naka just went from ‘awesome’ to ‘legend’ in our book.

Here’s some choice cuts from the interview:

Nidcom: Is there meaning behind the lower case ‘i’ in the name NiGHTS? Some fans speculate that it may stand for ‘imagination’ or ‘Id’ from Freudian research.
Yuji Naka: The “i” in the logo, was imagined from the gem on NiGHTS’ chest. At first, the logo design was created to distinguish the word NiGHTS from Nights. NiGHTS was then used throughout the game.

Nidcom: Is it true that in the 1990′s a PC version of NiGHTS into Dreams was planned? There was a rumour that it existed at one point and one of the new levels was called ‘Sparkle Attic’? Can you tell us more about this, perhaps?
Yuji Naka: I thought production was completed. Wasn’t the PC version put on the market? I actually participated in the release of the PC version of NiGHTS in Akihabara. So I thought it was on the market. But this is for sure, there is no new level.
See: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20030321/sega.htm

Nidcom: There had been talk of a NiGHTS sequel for many years after the Saturn game. The sequel, Journey of Dreams was made however you were no longer part of Sonic Team by that point. If it were somehow possible would you ever consider making another NiGHTS game, if you were asked to?
Yuji Naka: I have been asked hundreds of times to make the sequel of NiGHTS, but have no desire to create one.
As I feel the same way that my beloved Mr. Steven Spielberg would never make a sequel to ET because it was his first work and such a fantastic film. I feel the same way about NiGHTS.
Oh, the first person to play NiGHTS, other than the SEGA team, was Mr. Spielberg. During the development of the NiGHTS game, he visited SEGA and we asked him to play with an experimental version of the new controller. Since then we called it the Spielberg controller.

Read the full thing at www.nightsintodreams.com now!

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When it comes to winning website awards, I’ve always been an outsider. But I’ve always appreciated the support I get as it shows that someone out there regards my site as their favourite site. This is why I still continue to enter wesbite awards competitions because as the saying goes, “you’ve got to be in it to win it”.

So if you think SEGADriven is worthy of “Best Layout”, “Greatest Improvement”, “Best Media Source” or “The Shadow All-Star Award” then lend us your support by clicking on the banner above and giving us a vote!

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Sure, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is… erm… nice… and all, but I bet you all want a real reason to get into the winter sports mood don’t you, SEGAHeads? Well worry no more, because Sega Japan have announced Storm-G, an arcade sit-in bobsled racer that has you reaching speeds of 185mph. That’s right. A bobsled. You get to race in a bobsled. At 185 miles per hour. How sweet is this!

The cabinet, shown above, will house eight bobsleds, with each pod able to seat two players. Twin joysticks are used to play the game whilst inside, which you can use to increase your speed and rotate your sled 360 degrees.

Look at that screenshot above. Now that’s Sega, that is. The game will be installed at Sega’s Joypolis Amusement Park in Tokyo around March 2009. We’ll be heading to Japan in April, and you can bet your bottom dollar we’ll be heading down to play it. If you fancy a go on it when it opens, the ride will cost ¥600 (£4.50) for a ten minute race of snowy awesomeness.

All this news makes me want to go and watch Cool Runnings now. Jamaica, we have a bobsled team!

Source: G-Para Article (via Kotaku)

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Many of you may have seen the SEGA Mega Drive Twin-Pad Player from ATGames kicking around www.play-asia.com for a while. It’s a nifty piece of kit that comes with all the games featured on the portable player (see our review of the portable Mega Drive in our ‘Archive’) but adds a cartridge slot to play real Mega Drive games with. It also features a switch to allow the use of both Japanese and American NTSC games but it does not feature the ability to play PAL games.

Many reviewers have noted that the playback with real MD carts is very hit and miss with a lot of games not working at all and graphical issues with the game’s that do work.

However, we’ve just noticed that Blaze are going to release the SEGA Mega Drive Twin-Pad Player with full cartridge support for games from every region. They’ve cut the built-in games down to 15 but this is a new, licensed SEGA Mega Drive console that has no region lockout as standard. www.Play.com have the machine listed at £37.99 due for release on 24/04/2009.

Fingers crossed everyone; if this machine deals with all the compatibility issues that its’ Japanese brethren has, then we could be receiving the best Mega Drive ever released. Man, it rocks to be British 😉

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Today 2 new SEGA games have been announced.

Our first port of call is the new Alien Vs Predator game (yes, another Aliens game!) bring 2009’s SEGA/Alien count up to 3 games.

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (February 11, 2009) – SEGA of America Inc., SEGA Europe Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox L&M;) today reveals exciting new details of their increasing portfolio of upcoming games based on Twentieth Century Fox’s Aliens universe.

“SEGA continues to create masterful games based on our Aliens franchise and this new addition is sure to continue their successful track record,” said Gary Rosenfeld, Senior Vice President, New Media for Fox L&M.;

The big news comes with the inevitable:

Following the 10 million selling Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games comes the Winter Olympics-based sequel which will most probably be hitting the shelves for Christmas.

I personally could see this one coming a mile off and feel it’s a bit unnecessary. This couldn’t be more of an attempt to make a load of dosh off the back of the last game which has been a consistent top seller for almost 2 years.

Its not that I feel the last game wasn’t good and isn’t deserving of its’ popularity, but treating the gaming public as a giant wallet isn’t cool so this needs to be something special. The Wii has enough mini-game titles to fill a disused mine so SEGA better pull a surprise out of the bag instead of just sticking in more characters like the inevitable Silver (he’s in SatBK now so you can obviously expect him in this).

Perhaps adding the ability to earn medals and new events through multiplayer would be the first improvement that could be implemented… hint-hint?

Either way, SEGADriven will now refer to anything SEGA/Nintendo/Olympics-related as this:

Edit
Urtheart just showed me this: http://brandokay.deviantart.com/art/Petey-and-Big-67109987. Maybe a fan game needs to happen?

See the first teaser of what to expect below:

See the press release after the break as this update has been way too long 😉

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Well it’s certainly been a busy month, but with Valentines Day coming up how could I not show a little love and affection to the loyal viewers of SegaDriven?
I’ve spent some time getting close to some old-school Sega gaming and updated our Hardware and First Party Software sections accordingly. I will admit that I am not yet finished, I have several more games I own left to review and the hardware is lacking photos of the boxes, the manuals and scans from an official Sega Consumer History book I imported from Japan.

HARDWARE UPDATES;
SG-1000 Mark I – Minor updates
SG-1000 Mark II – History Article and High Definition Photos
Sega Mark III – History Article and High Definition Photos
Master System I – Minor Updates

FIRST PARTY SOFTWARE – SG-1000 SOFTWARE UPDATES;
Borderline – Review, Screenshots, Cartridge Photos
Monaco GP – Review, Screenshots, Cartridge Photos
Star Jacker – Review, Screenshots, Cartridge Photos

The Hardware pages for the Second and Third Generation have been updated to tell you the new stuff to be added soon. I better get back to work, enjoy the content.

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Using the link below, you can purchase a brand new Sega SC-3000H from Australia. I bought one myself (To also help add info to this site) and it cost less than £50 including postage and packing to England!

If you’re really into SEGA, and want some cheap but extremely rare (These are exceptionally hard to come by) retro goodness, you really can’t go wrong with this. It’s a second generation computer system based on the SG-1000 console. The H series has an upgraded keyboard and increased RAM over the standard SC-3000. It takes SG-1000 cartridges, and can also be integrated with a Sega SF-7000 floppy disk desktop add-on.

The Yeno on the machine and in the box is the distribution company of the PAL model, however you can see on the machine itself that it still has “Manufactured by SEGA” on the right hand side of the machine. Yeno made no modifications to the machine itself, just slapped it’s name on there.

More information will be updated in the Second Generation Sega Hardware section soon (I have yet to recieve mine as I had it shipped via seamail) along with photos of it in High Definition and an opinion/Review of the machine. Hard to find Sega consoles from before the Master System, especially at such a low price. Get in there before the bargain is over.

Sega Yeno SC-3000H eBay Auction link
Sega SC-3000H

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